Last weekend while I was preparing a microscopy course based on the use of the foldscope I started looking for samples at my parent’s house. In their garden they have a water fountain that is frequently visited by birds (birds usually take baths there and use them as restroom too) the water of this fountain looked really murky so I took a little and looked at it under the Foldscope (low mag lens), I was not disappointed!

I found a very interesting bug of about 900 um in length

When I looked closer at it I found what looks like a paramecium! (On your left)

Zooming out I was able to observe that the bug was next to what looked like a dead mosquito larva (this image in particular was taken few days later)

Then, by zooming in on the dead larva I found what looked like an scavenger carnival! Several unknown (for me at least!) life forms (any ideas on what are those?)

I was so excited that I even recorded a video and captured very small (unidentified) creatures moving around!

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